David Cake
>you can tell what is magical and what is not by going to the Dead
Place and >seeing if it still works\
You are right, David. Do you think that people heal naturally in the Dead Place?I don't. I don't think that children can be engendered there either. Nor can anyone fall in love there (but pre-existing love can persist). I don't think that food retains its full nutritional value there -- and is gradually sapped, the longer it remains. Nor can life even persist for long -- there are no native plants. There are no native animals. I fully expect that a human who dwelt full-time in the Dead Place would wither and die within a year.
The Dead Place shows us exactly what Glorantha would be like if it had no magic, and it's not much like Earth at all.
>The interesting question, though, is what about sorcery, which
does not require >direct contact with the otherworld?
It doesn't? I think that it requires otherworld contact on a personal level as firm and real as that of a shaman or a priest. The sorcerer may not be contacting sapient otherworld entities (whether gods or spirits) to get his magic, but he's still using the otherworld -- accessing it on a personal basis, instead of through an intermediary.
Sandy P.
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